Published in The Independent (April 16th, 2013) Commodity trading seems to attract those characters who feel property dealing too ensnared by ethics, and the bonuses in banking just […]
Aid / Technology
Media short-changes the poor with soft-soap aid coverage
Published in The Guardian (17th March, 2013) For several weeks, BBC television seems to have been dominated by build-up to Friday’s Red Nose Day, with worthy dramas and special […]
Economics
More capitalism, not less, will tame the corporate titans
Published in The Independent (February 20th, 2013) The headlines were dominated yesterday by an alleged murder in South Africa, a huge diamond heist in Belgium and the Prime […]
Health / Police / Policy / Politics / Technology
Why does no-one ever take the blame any more?
Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in the crucial Eastleigh by-election, he spoke passionately about […]
Economics
Tax, transparency and a titanic fight for power
Published in The Independent (January 26th, 2013) Davos is a rather absurd jamboree– so important to those who attend it and so irrelevant to the rest of the […]
Economics / Housing / Policy
We must make it easier to build homes in London
Published in the London Evening Standard (January 4th, 2013) There are plans for a handful of new houses in my neck of north London. It is a modest […]
Economics
There’s something profoundly wrong with a nation where only the ‘little people’ pay taxes
Published in The Daily Mail (November 14th, 2012) Amazon, Starbucks and Google are three of the corporate giants that define our age. In the space of just a […]
Technology
An epic, tragic blunder – but we must not let the BBC self-destruct
Published in The Independent on Sunday (November 11th, 2012) A few days ago, chatting to one of the country’s most senior Tories, I was shocked when he asked […]
Arts / Books / Economics
Outrageous fortunes
Published in The Observer (November 4th, 2012) Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich by Chrystia Freeland (Allen Lane) Who is the richest person to have […]
Economics / Environment / Policy / Politics
Tory retreat on climate change is senseless
Published in The Guardian (October 29th, 2012) The year after David Cameron became Tory party leader, he did something party leaders normally never do: he spoke at a […]
Economics
A roaring British success: from rabble to record-breakers
Published in The Daily Mail (July 28th, 2012) Donna Green grew up in the shadow of the giant Cowley car plant on the outskirts of Oxford. Her grandfather […]